Services

North Point Technology succeeds and thrives only when our clients do too. We love what we do, and it gives us great pleasure to add skills and talents to our toolbag. Let our team be your guides and your partners. Our goals are the same, and it is easier to reach the summit with a strong team.

Advanced software design and development in accordance with the goals of the client, including functionality, operator usability, ease of commissioning and troubleshooting. We will use client standards if they exist, or may suggest or create standards for future projects, in concern with the client.

Commissioning

Onsite and/or remote startup support depending on the needs of the project. We travel globally for system startups and are dedicated to the success of each project and client.

AutoCAD Electrical driven electrical design for control panels and related systems, complete with Bill of Materials and cross references.

Panel Building

We work with our trusted local suppliers, or those of the client if directed, to build control cabinets to our designs. We then conduct witnessed or unwitnessed testing to ensure compliance with design.

Plant Audit Services

North Point engineers can provide control system and process audits for your facility. These audits can be customized to target areas of highest concern, but in general may include evaluating disaster recovery, process security (ID weak or key points), cyber-security, training and operations security (dependence on key personnel), and more.

Certified Safety Relay or modular controller with local safety oversight.

Analytics Networks

Purpose-specific networking for collection and analysis of turbidity and other process data.

Electronics

From low voltage relay logic to medium voltage motor control systems, electrical and electronics are the basis for the most advanced industrial control.

Tier 2- Advanced and Distributed Control Systems

Networked PLC and PAC Systems

Advanced high-reliability controllers with remote I/O and multi-network communication with peers and with other intelligent devices. Can control cells, production lines, or entire facilities.

Hardware-Based HMI Systems

High reliability, tough, purpose-specific operator interface systems for on-machine or in-field deployment. This is the front line of computerized operator interface.

Multivariable and Advanced Continuous Process Control

Cascade, feed-forward, ratio, and nonlinear control loops, singly and in combination, are used to handle challenging processes.

Distributed and Coordinated Safety

Safety PLCs, specific-purpose programmable safety controllers, and entire triple-redundant safety focussed systems are applied to processes with a high potential for personnel, equipment or product damage in the event of a fault or abnormal operation.

Tier 3- High Technology Automation Systems

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)

Single or networked PC based software for visualization, interaction, data import and export, analytics. SCADA systems take many forms based on customer needs- they can be server based, distributed, redundant, and have clients through the control room, the enterprise, or further.

DCS (Distributed Control System)

Large, networked purpose-specific computers with custom operating software. Control logic is distributed among devices and is usually multi-redundant. These systems are still prevalent in large integrated process plants like paper plants, power plants and refineries.

Historian Systems

Large-scale high performance collection of process data, based on time or events or other criteria. Designed to provide trend data to SCADA systems as well as supporting third party export and analysis or reporting tools

Reporting Systems

Designed to retrieve live and/or historical data from SCADA or Historian systems, process it and present it in a clear manner in a format acceptable to the end user (such as Excel or PDF). Often include automatic timed delivery of reports to user groups.

Relational databases (ie. SQL Server, MySQL) can be hosted in the cloud, affording the safety, security, and global accessibility of the cloud, even if your data sources and clients are local. High reliability applications can use store and forward or local replication to ensure access to data.

INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS (IIOT)

A subset of the wider IoT, IIoT describes the rapid proliferation of smaller, cheaper sensor-equipped internet-connected devices, the technologies that allow efficient two-way communication with all these devices, and the software systems that collect, collate, process and analyze the mass of data that results. This collision and merger of IT and automation is inevitable and already taking place.

BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION

All businesses have processes, and the effective operation of these are critical to the success of the business. We are expert at recognition of the convergence between automation technology and these processes, and translating them into database backed, logic driven automation systems, customized for your business and delivered quickly at a reasonable cost.

SCADA, HISTORIAN, and REPORTING SYSTEMS

Inductive Automation

NPT is proud to be a Premier Certified Integrator of Ignition SCADA, a powerful, flexible, cross-platform server-based system.